, it’s great at picking off an opponent’s smaller creatures or helping other cards deal with bigger ones. Black seems like my strongest color, good removal, a little evasion in the form of Corpulent Corpse

, and it is true that when it goes off it can really swing a game, but I’ve never been that crazy about it. It seems to me that if I can wait five turns to kill a creature, it probably isn’t that big of a problem, and the cost to hardcast it is extremely difficult to make. This, however, is the situation for which Phthisis

was built, to set up removal for a suspended creature. I gained an early advantage after all the suspending by getting some smaller creatures into play and doing some damage before my opponent could do much beyond dropping lands and this ended up proving decisive. In the end a combat trick involving a flashed Scryb Ranger

to the deck, since my opponent showed a large number of suspend creatures in game one. I was off to an early advantage, but in the end my opponent was able to use his bounce and evasion to outrace me. Game three wasn’t even close. My opponent complained of an all land hand (which probably should have been mulliganed) and my removal was able to keep him from mounting much of a defense. In the end a timely Empty the Warrens

early against an opponent playing a number of one toughness creatures. Taking out my opponent’s early creatures was a setback from which he was never able to recover. Game two I got a good start and was able to drop creatures at a good enough rate to overwhelm my opponent.

Record so far: 2-0

Match three, game one started out pretty evenly matched between my opponent and me. I was able to swing the game in my favor with my two regenerators and Magus of the Scroll

. Game two I just dropped too many creatures too quickly for opponent to deal with.

Record so far: 3-0

Game one of match four was my turn to be on the receiving end of a severe beating as my opponent got aggressive and overran me with creatures before I could do much to slow him down. Game two I was able to turn the tables thanks to my Uthden Troll

on his attack, but I accidentally misclicked and so my opponent was able to get through for lethal damage. Game two was even worse for me as my opponent got of to an aggressive start, sealing the deal with a Spike Tiller

never did do much for me, in fact the only time I ever got it into play it was immediately bounced back to my hand. So, I may be taking it out for something else next week. Other than that, any changes will really be dependent on what I open up in next week’s pack.

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